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A Poet (2025)
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Original name: Un poeta
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, existential
Plot:
poetry, creativity, character study, isolation, aging, obscurity, regret, intimate, obsession, mishap, coming of age, identity, frustration, slice of life, sacrifice, ambition, redemption, tenderness, moral ambiguity, hopes, teacher student relationship, neighborhood, small town, humility, social realism ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, existential and independent film films with plots about slice of life, intimate, character study, bittersweet, identity, coming of age and redemption mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like A Poet: Early Music (2017), Bucharest Non-Stop (2015), Prime Mover (2009), Christy (2023), Autonomous Women (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Two foundering musicians in the early stage of their careers meet and form an unlikely alliance.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, earnest
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, perseverance, passion, creative process, creativity, collaboration, personal growth, intimate, slice of life, character study, friendship, ambition ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a ...
Style:
independent film, intense, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
ordinary people, slice of life, nightlife, everyday life, neighborhood, social realism, realism, character study, street life, working class, empathy, storekeeper ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
trucker, ambition, truck, truck driver, driving, satire, working class, character study, blue collar, working life, realism, midlife crisis ...
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72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Roy, a village boy who's a failure at studies, joins Christy's tuition. They become good friends, but later when Christy gets a job abroad, Roy's life changes
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, village life, coming of age, nostalgia, relationships, personal growth, longing, aspiration, bittersweet, education, separation ...
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69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Seven episodes, seven stories of women that make up a mosaic of a multifaceted reality.
Style:
anthology, reflective, emotional, contemplative, melancholic
Plot:
character study, introspection, identity, intimate, slice of life, relationships, modern life, gender roles, social realism, bittersweet, domestic drama, motherhood ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Purgatory Comics tells the story of a young woman named Cola who runs from her adult responsibilities and hides in a failing comic book store. This leaves Cola to question how long she can hide from her complicated past.
Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
comic book, self discovery, identity crisis, female protagonist, intimate, coming of age, runaway, isolation, personal growth, slice of life, everyday life, escape ...
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60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The journey of an old man and an EMT specialist in an ambulance becomes unexpectedly meaningful for both of them.
Style:
road movie, existential, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
character study, road trip, mortality, father son relationship, grief, aging, life & death, ambulance, reconciliation, redemption, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
Style:
crime drama, bleak, emotional, intense, tragic
Plot:
working class, poverty, moral ambiguity, blue collar, character study, social realism, everyday life, desperation, survival, city life, intimate, slice of life ...
Place:
rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Ma Chenggang, a wealthy man in Xihong City, worries that his eldest son is too spoiled to succeed him. Determined to raise a capable successor, he takes an unconventional approach. They conceal their wealth, moving the family to a dilapidated ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, dramatic
Plot:
parenting, perseverance, family drama, work ethic, determination, responsibility, father son relationship, hardship, social class, resilience, domestic drama, hopes ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
2004 film
Style:
anthology, art house, reflective, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
omnibus, japanese culture, everyday life, thoughtful, small town, summer, social realism, intimate, slice of life, minimalism, bittersweet, rehearsal ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not ...
Style:
melancholic, poetic, existential
Plot:
violinist, humanism, working class, self discovery, empathy, social class, character study, urban, classical music, compassion, musician, community ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
54%
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A veteran actor is at the end of his glory days. He was a great film, TV and theater performer, but he hardly work anymore. Then he meets a young director who wants to carry out a science fiction project, and a friendship emerges.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
bittersweet, introspection, redemption, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, actor's life, aging, filmmaking, hopes, elderly, friendship, legacy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
53%
106
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, existential, surreal
Plot:
advertising agency, inspiration, advertising, creativity, death, identity, street kid, intimate, orphan, loss, obsession, memory ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, redemption, personal growth, identity, estrangement, parenting, intimate, honesty, reconciliation, character study, humanism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
51%
454
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
alienation, loss, character study, isolation, dog, intimate, slice of life, minimalism, loneliness, midlife crisis, redemption, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Job is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, emotional, contemplative, independent film
Plot:
boy, loneliness, grief, intergenerational friendship, coming of age, loss, tenderness, elderly man, urban, character study, redemption, social issues ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
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206
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Victor wonders if he’s too late to join dating games in his 40s. His sister Annika, an opera singer, wonders how different life could have been after receiving a surprising medical diagnosis. Their grandmother wonders if she should end her life ...
Style:
life affirming, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
terminal illness, opera singer, family drama, mortality, midlife crisis, bittersweet, hopes, intimate, sibling relationship, aging, grandmother, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, reflective, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
artist, self discovery, personal growth, choice, identity, character study, relationships, love triangle, humanism, slice of life, coming of age, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, slovakia, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The movie takes us through the saga of the actor, Veljko Radisavljević, who has the impression that the entire universe has conspired against him.
Style:
psychological, tragicomedy, dark comedy, existential, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
performance art, actor's life, identity, ambition, character study, paranoia, outsider, obsession, midlife crisis, alienation, family conflict, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the ...
Style:
anthology, existential, tense, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
hotel room, loneliness, character study, urban, cross dressing, intimate, identity crisis, prostitution, suicide, sexuality, voyeurism, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, family drama, caregiver, empathy, unconditional love, compassion, parent child relationship, identity, intimate, personal growth, character study ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, dramatic, independent film
Plot:
father son relationship, illness, cancer, family drama, punk, island, getting home, bittersweet, realism, small town, rock band, nostalgia ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Elementary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a whole new life. After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan Roman jungle, he had to move to a village in Central Italy, to teach in a tiny school with just a few children aged 7-10. ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, scenic, melancholic
Plot:
education, village, teacher, children, elementary school, small town, friendship, community, fish out of water, provincial life, intimate, relocation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, first love, young love, youth culture, rugby, personal growth, character study, friendship, identity, peer pressure, hopes ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
Style:
independent film, emotional, melancholic, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
poetry, character study, betrayal, moral ambiguity, conscience, ethics, deception, guilt, ambition, tragedy, mute character, social commentary ...
Time:
year 1992
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style:
realistic, clever, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, nostalgia, character study, introspection, regret, memory, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, sarajevo
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old, bipolar, runaway named Jay breaks into the house of a retired former cop named Bill, just as Bill reaches rock bottom due to his own issues. These two move from distrust to understanding and come to realize that even though they ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film
Plot:
mental illness, character study, bipolar disorder, retired cop, runaway teen, self discovery, loneliness, healing, redemption, coming of age, bonding, empathy ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
As laid-off factory worker Marcos pins his hopes for a new life on completing his long-unfinished one-man play, he contacts his estranged friend Martín, now a television writer, for help. But can their collaboration transcend an uneasy past? As the ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, melancholic, art house, one man show
Audience:
adult
Plot:
creative process, theater, friendship, slice of life, factory worker, playwright, introspection, intimate, collaboration, realism, working class, reconciliation ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
Manical portrait of a small businessman.
Style:
melancholic, intense, existential, art house, grim ...
Plot:
small business, character study, portrait, manic, isolation, introspection, male protagonist, loneliness, social realism, identity crisis, midlife crisis, mishap ...
Time:
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